HEN THE painter Dick Wray was born in Houston in 1933, the city was still early in its boomtown rise. People came to Houston to work, not make art. Over the next 77 years of his life, Wray became one of the key agents of change—not only bringing in artistic influences from the outside, but also expressing with his own bold and vigorous art the transformation of Houston as it grew to become the fourth-largest city in the United States. As such, he became one of
